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    Airframe Family: English Electric Canberra
    Latest Model:Canberra SC.9
    Last Military Serial:XH132 RAE
    Construction Number:SH1722
    Latest Owner or Location:Albino Panigarri, Vigolzone, Italy

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    Dates

    Event

    1959

    Constructed as a Canberra PR.9.

    31 March 1960

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Ministry of Defence with s/n XH132.

    1960

    Converted to a Canberra SC.9 by Short.
    Converted at Short Brothers factory in Ireland and was rebuilt as a specialised Shorts SC.9 with the capability of carrying several different types of nose-mounted equipment for missile homing head trails.

    Transferred to Dehavilland Propellors, Hatfield.
    As part of the Red Top guided missile trails programme.

    Transferred to Hawker Siddeley Dynamics for A Continuation of the Trails.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Aircraft Establishment with s/n XH132.

    1972

    Transferred to Radar Research Establishment, Pershore.
    For Sky Flash guided weapon homing-head development.

    By September 1982

    Transferred to RSRE, RAE Bedford.

    4 September 1982


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at RAF Finningley Airshow

    4 September 1982


    Photographer: Robert Nichols

    1986

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n 8915M.

    24 September 1986

    Transferred to Battle Damage Research Flight, RAF Saint Mawgan,.
    As a Ground Instruction airframe.

    By 19 May 1992

    Scrapped.
    Broken up at RAF St Mawgan by Henry Orchards Scrap, St Austell, Cornwall. Nose preserved.

    By June 1999

    Placed on display with Albino Panigarri, Vigolzone, Italy.

    9 April 2016

    9 April 2016

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    UK Serials Resource Centre by Wolverhampton Aviation Group
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